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I thought the list of Technology partners was interesting, as who they are, there some surprises there, for me, at least. - tracyanne

If you develop applications using FOSS tools, Workbench is an ideal distro for you. In addition to packing a gamut of development tools, the distro also bundles everyday apps and eye candy, so you can use it on your desktop as well. Workbench is based on Xubuntu, the Xfce-powered Ubuntu flavor, but unlike Xubuntu it doesn't fit on a standard 700MB CD. With all its development tools and productivity apps, Workbench weighs in at 1.4GB. You can download the distro from either a low-speed direct download server or BitTorrent.

Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, now you can forget them.

[ Not FOSS related at all. But we should stay up to date with 'innovative' firms, don't we? - hkwint ]

Again inspired by Phil Howard's [1.], whose penchant for seeing simple text files as the solution, I have found, indeed, it would have provided the quicker, less error prone approach for updating the News page on the defunct OpenSourceToday site. Moreover, not only would have it been, it is simpler; it also had the additional advantage of the ability to discard older, rotted stories before they become an obvious embarrassment. That is what I will show here, the more direct method to update these pages relying more heavily upon text files, while reducing the risk due to excessive processing.

Crafting Application Public Interface (API) and especially managing API among different releases is difficult. In this article, learn how to take advantage of Eclipse's Plug-in Development Environment API Tools to make this process easier and seamlessly integrated into your daily development.

We'll, this week's been completely out-of-sequence. Today's post was slated for the day before yesterday and Tuesday's number pool script that was supposed to come out yesterday ended up getting published on Tuesday. If there's one thing we've learned this week, it's that my day job is starting to interfere with my hobbies ;)

Untangle has announced its new, open source Re-Router Technology, which is available for download now. If you're familiar with Untangle's previous open source gateway software for Linux, this is the same technology for Windows. It lets Windows desktops perform network gateway services such as blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and inappropriate websites for a whole network.

Romain Gaucher, a specialist in web security, offers his Scalp tool in version 0.4. The log analyzer searches for attacks on Apache web applications.

The issue of Polish institutions and public administration in general, being dependent on closed-source software providers, the main one being Microsoft, is largely spoken about. There are exceptions among the institutions however, and one of them will be featured in our today’s article. We hope that it will be a pilot of a series of articles describing FLOSS deployments in Poland

InkScape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more

After years of development, Google's first Android-powered phone is finally here -- well, almost. T-Mobile is expected to unveil the HTC Dream at a closed media event Sept. 23, with the device rumored to hit store shelves by mid-October. The question, then, is whether the Dream -- and the Android concept on the whole -- can actually deliver.

For an entertaining example of how Linux can power home appliances, check out the Tangent Quattro Internet radio. This device combines Internet and broadcast radio with a media server client on an embedded Linux platform to give you a variety of audio playback options. The Quattro has a solid feel. A single speaker at the top of the unit produces rich sound. The front panel has volume and tuning knobs and a dozen buttons for station presets and other functions. At the center of the front panel is a two-line LCD display that shows the station you're listening to, menu choices, and status messages.

I've taken to calling my Power Macintosh G4/466 the Debian Mac. I continue to be amazed at how well Debian Etch runs on this thing with 466 MHz of PowerPC CPU and a smallish 128 MB of RAM. (I'll take this opportunity to repeat that on this box, Etch runs many a ring around Fedora 9's PowerPC port). The best thing I could do for the usability of this box is to up the RAM.

Our replay of Charlie Schluting's excellent Networking 101 series continues with a two-part dissection of TCP. Understanding the ubiquitous TCP is key to troubleshooting networking communications.

It was only ever a matter of time before Toshiba stripped off and jumped in the rapidly crowding Netbook pool. Will the Ubuntu 8.04 driven NB100 make a splash?

Supercomputer maker has introduced the CX1, a small and low-cost supercomputer running Microsoft's new HPC Server 2008. The system is scheduled for official release Sept. 22. Aimed at users across a range of markets, including financial services, aerospace, automotive, petroleum, life sciences, government, academia and digital media, the systems are priced from $25,000 to more than $60,000.

VMware Inc. Chief Technology Officer Stephen Herrod drew a cheer at the VMworld conference Wednesday by announcing plans to bring the next version of the company's VirtualCenter management software to Linux and the iPhone. In a speech opening Day 2 of the VMworld show in Las Vegas, Herrod also described improvements to VMware's core virtual machine technology that should allow businesses to run larger, more demanding applications on virtualized servers.

T-DOSE 2008 is an event for learning about Open Source and the place for developers to meet ones peers. See theT-DOSE site for the schedule and other information. Possible subjects for talks are: Web 2.0, Desktop, Multimedia, Gaming, Embedded and other good ideas. Speakers can send ideas and abstracts to: abstracts@t-dose.org. The e-mail should contain a short biography of the speaker and description of the talk. All talks will be held in English.
T-DOSE 2008 will be held on 25 and 26 October 2008 at the Fontys University of Applied Science in Eindhoven (Google Maps), and abstracts can be sent until 30th September .

Sorry for posting this late. I'll be there too, and Sander might as well. - hkwint]

Richard Stallman talks about GNU’s 25th anniversary, Google Chrome, sharing non-free software, preinstalled GNU/Linux on pc, NDA, OLPC XO

My inability to do more-than-simple mathematics at times has really put a cramp in my computing style. In the case of OpenBSD and the $15 Laptop — the Compaq Armada 7770dmt — it has cost me 32 MB of RAM ever since I upgraded from 64 MB to the maximum 144 MB. The reason is that in some Compaq's OpenBSD will not address more than 16 MB of RAM without some intervention on the part of the user.